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Built Environment, Land Use and Transportation
Mini-Plenary: MP 1.4: It Can Be Done: Successful Community Engagement Models to Maximize Collective Impact
This session will focus on stories and results from three vibrant California communities that have employed unique strategies incorporating community engagement, non-traditional partnerships, and a comprehensive approach to move beyond collaboration and achieve collective impact. Join us to hear seasoned professionals from the Central Valley, Inland Empire, and our host county of San Diego discuss their innovative strategies to reduce obesity and promote their policy and environmental change strategies (PSE). Whether by engaging with Resident Leadership Academies, working with local elected officials, incorporating a Health in All Policies approach, or focusing on specific built environment projects, these communities are beginning to make an impact in preventing obesity.
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Erika Lewis-Huntley is a Management Analyst III in the City Manager’s Office for the City of Rancho Cucamonga. She is the Director of the City’s comprehensive Healthy RC initiative. Erika has led and implemented a wide variety of policies to enhance community health by increasing the availability of healthy and affordable food, creating more opportunities for physical activity, and encouraging development of walkable communities for children and families.
Lourdes Perez, Program Coordinator, Stanislaus County CCROPP, Center for Human Services - Ceres Partnership for Healthy Children
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Lourdes Perez is the Program Coordinator at the Center for Human Services- Ceres Partnership for Healthy Children. She has worked for the Center for Human Services for seven years. In her position as Program Coordinator she works with the Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program to help create a healthier community that supports healthy eating and active living through increasing access to healthy food and beverages and improving opportunities for physical activity. She received a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from California State University Stanislaus. As a program coordinator for a child health agency her commitment to student academic achievement and social well-being has carried forth to the school board serving as a Trustee for the Ceres Unified School District for the last six years.
Carey Riccitelli, Community Health Program Manager, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency
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Carey Riccitelli is a Community Health Program Manager with the County of San Diego’s Health and Human Services Agency. She has a Bachelors in psychology and a Masters in Public Health, with an emphasis in community health, both from San Diego State University. She has been with the County for over 20 years, serving as project manager for programs focusing on community outreach and engagement. Carey manages a community team that addresses health, safety and wellness issues for the diverse region of North San Diego County, which includes urban cities, rural communities, tribal nations and the Marine Corp’s Camp Pendleton.
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Lynn Parker is a Scholar at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and directs its work on obesity. She is the Director of the IOM’s Roundtable on Obesity Solutions and was the Director of its Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention. In addition, she acted as the IOM point person on the development of the Emmy-nominated HBO/IOM Weight of the Nation documentary series and was the study director for the IOM’s reports on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation (2012), Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies (2011), Bridging the Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention: A Framework to Inform Decision Making (2010), and Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity (2009). Ms. Parker is the 2012 recipient of the IOM’s Cecil Research Award. Before joining the IOM, she was the Director of Child Nutrition Programs and Nutrition Policy at the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), an organization working to end hunger and under nutrition in the United States. Ms. Parker served as president of the Society for Nutrition Education and is the 2006 recipient of the Mary C. Egan Award from the American Public Health Association. Previously, Ms. Parker was as an Extension Associate with New York State’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program at Cornell University. She received her B.A. in anthropology at the University of Michigan and an M.S. in human nutrition from Cornell University.
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WS 1.6: A Cross-Sectorial Approach for Designing and Fostering Healthy, Safe Communities
The places where people live, work, play, pray and learn are critical in community health and can significantly impact healthy eating, active living and safety. This session will connect community design principles to health and identify tools to develop cross-sectorial partnerships. Communities will be highlighted that have successfully integrated strategies to increase neighborhood health and safety.
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Shaunda currently oversees the South Sacramento Healthy Eating Active Living Initiative (HEAL Zone) project funded by Kaiser Permanente. She leads a multi-sectorial coalition of residents, business, community and faith based partners in efforts to create a culture of change that increases access to healthy food, physical activity, safe streets and educational opportunities. Prior to her current position, Shaunda was a Community Organizer with Sacramento ACT and lead their violence prevention work. Shaunda has also served as a board member of the Sacramento Safe Community Partnership, the governing body of Sacramento’s Ceasefire gang and gun violence reduction initiative.
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Maureen Silva works to expand health initiatives that build momentum and community capacity to support healthy eating and physical activity. Maureen provides national consultations through the CDC’s Community Transformation Grants (CTG), and is a trainer for Prevention is Primary series for the Health Exchange Academy. Prior to joining Prevention Institute, Maureen worked as a Community Nutrition Educator with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Contra Costa County. Maureen acquired her Masters’ degree in Public Health from San Jose State University, and received her bachelor’s degree from California State University Chico.
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Paul Zykofsky directs the Local Government Commission’s programs related to community design and health, and the built environment. During the past 20 years he has worked with over 250 communities to improve conditions for infill development, walking, bicycling and transit, facilitating participatory design charrettes in over 50 communities. Zykofsky is certified to facilitate workshops on Walkable Communities, Safe Routes to School, Complete Streets, and pedestrian safety. He was born and raised in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.
Moderator: Karen Ben-Moshe, Senior Program Associate, Public Health Institute
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Karen Ben-Moshe, MPP, MPH, is a Senior Program Associate at the Public Health Institute. She supports the California Health in All Policies Task Force at the California Department of Public Health, overseeing Task Force community safety through violence prevention and farm-to-fork activities. She has work at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, La Clinica de La Raza, UC Berkeley Center for Health Leadership, and Children Now. Ms. Ben-Moshe received her MPH/MPP from UC, Berkley and her BA from Wesleyan University.
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WS 3.6: Shared Use: New Evidence and New Frontiers
Communities across the country are seeking safe, accessible, and affordable places to exercise and play, and shared use is a promising strategy to achieve this goal. This session will introduce new frontiers in shared use, identify policies and initiatives that are ripe for evaluation and replication, and provide practical tools and success stories to help make shared use a reality.
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John Bilderback, Step ONE Program Manager, Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department
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John Bilderback is the Program Manager for Step ONE (Optimize with Nutrition and Exercise) in Hamilton County, Tennessee. He also serves on the Tennessee Obesity Taskforce, the Tennessee Grocery Access Taskforce, the Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise Board of Directors, the Chattanooga Area Transportation Authority Board of Directors, and the Chattanooga YMCA’s Pioneering Healthier Communities team. John has played a major role in the creation of the Partnership for Healthy Living and is the project director for Grow Healthy Together Chattanooga. John holds a Master’s in Clinical Exercise Physiology from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.
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Ellie Gladstone is a Staff Attorney at ChangeLab Solutions, where she works on creating policy-based strategies to increase opportunities for healthy eating and active living. Much of Ellie’s work focuses on shared use and engaging faith-based oragnizations in community health and wellness efforts. She regularly provides training and technical assistance to state and local governments, community-based organizations, and public health advocates. Before becoming an attorney, Ellie worked as an epidemiologist, focusing on child health and development. Ellie graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, and holds a JD from UC Davis and an MPH (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) from UC Berkeley.
Gia Rutledge, Behavioral Scientist, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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Gia Rutledge has served as a Behavioral Scientist within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Program Development and Evaluation Branch since 2009. She received her master of public health in community health practice form the University of Arizona and her bachelors of science in biology from the University of California at San Diego. She currently serves on the Evaluation team providing guidance and technical assistance to states funded by DNPAO on evaluation; she also provides evaluation expertise on special projects, contracts and workgroups across the division.
Benjamin Winig, Senior Staff Attorney and Program Director, ChangeLab Solutions
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Ben Winig is a Senior Staff Attorney and Program Director at ChangeLab Solutions. He works at the intersection of the built environment and health. Ben regularly advises elected officials, public agency staff, and community-based organizations on a variety of active living and healthy planning strategies. He is a skilled trainer and facilitator, and has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences. Previously, Ben practiced municipal law at a private law firm in California. Ben received his law degree and master’s in public affairs from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and his bachelor’s degree, with distinction, from the University of Michigan.
Moderator: Rosanne Farris, Branch Chief, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Dr Rosanne Farris is currently the Program Development and Evaluation Branch Chief in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Atlanta. This Branch leads the State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health in 50 funded state health departments and the District of Columbia, as well as the Programs to Reduce Obesity in High Obesity Areas in 6 Land Grant Universities and Cooperative Extension Programs working with communities in their state with obesity rates greater than 40%.Dr Farris is the lead for 2 teams in this branch. They include a Program Advancement Team that manages the grantee cooperative agreement and implements project officer training, technical assistance , operations and management and program monitoring for performance assessment and risk mitigation. A second team that Dr. Farris directs is devoted to science translation and resource development. Finally, an evaluation team is guided by Dr Farris to conduct program evaluation, evaluation research, monitoring for accountability and evaluation technical assistance for local evaluation capacity building. Dr Farris’ major duties include serving as a national and internationally recognized expert in the areas of obesity prevention programs. She provides program vision and provides expert guidance related to program direction to state, local, national agencies, universities, health organizations, private non-profit organizations and other public health partners. Dr Farris serves as a consultant in the development of program interventions and initiatives and design of applied research and evaluation studies in the areas of nutrition, physical activity and obesity prevention. She represents the division, and the agency in meetings with key leaders and officials in federal, state agencies.
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WS 4.6: The First National Study of Neighborhood Parks: Implications for Increasing Physical Activity at the Population Level
This session will review the results of the first National Study of Neighborhood Parks, which assessed park use and park policies across 25 US Cities and 174 neighborhood parks. The findings identify specific policies, practices and facilities that enhance park use and park-based moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and demonstrate that parks are currently largely underutilized, especially in low-income neighborhoods.
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Deborah A. Cohen is a Senior Scientist at the RAND Corporation and the author of the new book, "A Big Fat Crisis-- the Hidden Forced Behind the Obesity Epidemic-- and How We Can End It." She is the principal investigator on several public health research studies focusing on the impact of the built environment on health, with a strong focus on parks and physical activity and the impact of retail outlets on diet. She is also the co-author of the book, "Prescription for a Healthy Nation-- A new approach to improving our health by fixing out everyday world."
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Bing Han is a Statistician at the RAND Corporation and has worked over the past 5 years on studying parks and park based physical activity, developing innovative methods to assess the contribution of parks to health.
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Thom McKenzie. is Professor Emeritus, School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences at San Diego State University and former Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego. He has been a major investigator on numerous multidisciplinary research projects funded by NIH (SCAN, CATCH, SPARK, M-SPAN, TAAG, and Obesity Prevention in Latino Communities), and has authored or co-authored over 150 papers. He is a physical activity and sports behavior analyst and has designed and tested numerous observation instruments including SOPLAY, SOFIT, and BEACHES. He has supervised the training of data collectors for multiple studies nationally and internationally that employ SOPARC.
Moderator: Jim Sallis, Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego
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James F. Sallis, Ph.D is Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at University of California, San Diego and Director of Active Living Research, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His research interests are promoting physical activity and understanding policy and environmental influences on physical activity, nutrition, and obesity. He has authored 600 scientific publications and is one of the world’s most cited authors in the social sciences. Time Magazine identified him as an “obesity warrior." http://sallis.ucsd.edu/
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